Blocks, logs, and Legos …
When we’re barely crawling, we start with blocks. We don’t do much with them other than stare at, explore, and throw them. It takes a while before we can build anything with them.
Do you remember Lincoln Logs? That was my next step in building toys.
Today, Legos rule the building empire of children. So much so — get this — that 50 million Legos are made each day!
It seems as though from our earliest days, we’re inclined to build something. We start with blocks, move on to more difficult objects, and eventually face the biggest challenge of all: building a life.
Here’s the most significant question about that “project”: What will you build it on?
God gave you a life, He’s not going to live it for you. It’s yours to build, with His help.
Jesus addressed this issue specifically, because what we build our lives on is fundamental to our human experience:
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall,” Matthew 7:4-27.
There is a single foundation upon which a human being can build a “successful” life, and the Apostle Paul stated it this way:
“For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ,” 1 Corinthians 3:11.
What is the actual foundation upon which your entire life rests and relies?
Scotty
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